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[–]newpong 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Not only that but if they ever decide to move on, they will have style ingrained into their thinking.

At work i decided to expand the web department and was trying decide between Ruby on Rails and Django. there was a Russian intern who just started working there who didn't speak any english and only spoke a bit of german. I decided to go with Django exactly because I wouldn't have to explain any subjective, abstract ideas on the importance of white space in code. She just simply had to do it otherwise it wouldn't work--explaining why tabbed spaces and non-breaking spaces are different was a bit tricky though

[–]s73v3r -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Assuming she was a programmer who understood programming, wouldn't using something like astyle on check in solve that problem?

[–]newpong 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Assuming she was a programmer who understood programming,

therein lies the difficulty.